Quotes about The Real Thing

Ain't nothing like the real thing. Votes: 3

A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing. Votes: 3

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. Votes: 3

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing! Votes: 3

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing. Votes: 3

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. Votes: 3

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. Votes: 3

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing. Votes: 3

Every idea from your thoughts is the real thing it's strength Votes: 3

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance? Votes: 3

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. Votes: 3

we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing. Votes: 3

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions. Votes: 3

And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not. Votes: 3

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. Votes: 3

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing. Votes: 3

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life. Votes: 3

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. Votes: 3

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing. Votes: 3

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle Votes: 3

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal. Votes: 3

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing. Votes: 3

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing. Votes: 3

If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real. Votes: 3

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. Votes: 3

Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing. Votes: 3

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing. Votes: 3

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing. Votes: 3

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing Votes: 3

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination. Votes: 3

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible! Votes: 3

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them. Votes: 3

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. Votes: 3

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible Votes: 3

Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late. Votes: 3

i realize you cant just throw real gems at ppl...because they think cubic zirconia is the real thing lol Votes: 3

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. Votes: 3

Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection. Votes: 3

Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy! Votes: 3

At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing. Votes: 3

India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing. Votes: 3

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. Votes: 3

It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing. Votes: 3

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing. Votes: 3

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along. Votes: 3

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. Votes: 3

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence. Votes: 3

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Votes: 3

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. Votes: 3

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. Votes: 3

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing. Votes: 3

Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years. Votes: 3

In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others. Votes: 3

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets. Votes: 3

For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. You have to be luxurious nude. Votes: 3

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. Votes: 3

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing. Votes: 3

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing. Votes: 3

Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it. Votes: 3

And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it. Votes: 3

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing. Votes: 3

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing. Votes: 3

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. Votes: 3

Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next. Votes: 3

Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. Votes: 3

I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like Votes: 3

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing. Votes: 3

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary. Votes: 3

Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting. Votes: 3

They probably didn't care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could believe in the illusion. Votes: 3

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self. Votes: 3

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature. Votes: 3

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells. Votes: 3

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . . Votes: 3

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are. Votes: 3

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. Votes: 3

It's complicated - love. It's so unique every time, with every person. And when the real thing comes along, I guess we just have to hope we see it. Votes: 3

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta. Votes: 3

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing. Votes: 3

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing." Votes: 3

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing. Votes: 3

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference Votes: 3

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs. Votes: 3

The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being. Votes: 3

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. Votes: 3

The next couple of jobs will determine, at least from a business point of view, if I'm a guy who's actually the real thing or I'm a guy who's had a nice moment. Votes: 3

I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like. Votes: 3

I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing. Votes: 3

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards. Votes: 3

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up. Votes: 3

Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it. Votes: 3

Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world. Votes: 3

She looks like the real thing, She tastes like the real thing, My fake plastic love. But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling If I just turned and ran. Votes: 3

Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff. Votes: 3

I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life) Votes: 3

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation. Votes: 3

I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure. Votes: 3

What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world. Votes: 3

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows. Votes: 3

The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay. Votes: 3

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. Votes: 3

Love isn't perfect. It's hard work and sometimes it's more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you. Votes: 3

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing. Votes: 3

As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the Onion, I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing. Votes: 3

When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God's finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven. Votes: 3

I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore. Votes: 3

Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing. Votes: 3

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. Votes: 3

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. Votes: 3

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. Votes: 3

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things. Votes: 3

The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing. Votes: 3

What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary. Votes: 3

What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about the real thing is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary. Votes: 3

You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something bad had happened today? It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I can handle the real thing. Votes: 3

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for. Votes: 3

I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes. Votes: 3

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. Votes: 3

If you're in your early twenties, don't put so much importance on the money, on the raise. Getting an extra thousand dollars a year is okay, but the real thing is the responsibility and the power and the experience that you're learning. Votes: 3

When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing. Votes: 3

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film. Votes: 3

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion. Votes: 3

I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you. Votes: 3

Love isn't a series of slogans like Just do it, It's the real thing, or Go ahead, stick it in my butt. Love is much more than that. Love is also a logo. I know, because I have it tattooed on my ass. Votes: 3

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing. Votes: 3

Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them. Votes: 3

I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship. Votes: 3

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later. Votes: 3

I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing. Votes: 3

We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood. Votes: 3

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? Votes: 3

Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president. Votes: 3

As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts. Votes: 3

My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica. Votes: 3

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. Votes: 3

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat. Votes: 3

The only real valuable thing is intuition. Votes: 1

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. Votes: 1

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. Votes: 1

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore. Votes: 1

The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans. Votes: 1

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it. Votes: 1

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. Votes: 1

The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real. Votes: 1

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk. Votes: 1

The real thing creates its own poetry. Votes: 0

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing. Votes: 0

The real achiever do one thing at a time. Votes: 0

The one real thing that money buys - Time. Votes: 0

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing. Votes: 0

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing Votes: 0

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. Votes: 0

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball. Votes: 0

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. Votes: 0

Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold. Votes: 0

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking. Votes: 0

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. Votes: 0

Every thought of yours is a real thing - a force. Votes: 0

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions. Votes: 0

In real life there is no such thing as the average man. Votes: 0

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold. Votes: 0

The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream Votes: 0

Real isn't how you are made... It's a thing that happens to you. Votes: 0

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Votes: 0

Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. Votes: 0

The fans are probably the only thing I can really see that's real. Votes: 0

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely. Votes: 0

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea. Votes: 0

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible. Votes: 0

Every thought of yours is a real thing "“ a force. (Prentice Mulford) Votes: 0

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself? Votes: 0

I've got a real love-hate thing with the saxophone. I've got to be careful. Votes: 0

The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life. Votes: 0

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice. Votes: 0

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing Votes: 0

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. Votes: 0

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again Votes: 0

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world Votes: 0

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. Votes: 0

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not? Votes: 0

The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture Votes: 0

The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete. Votes: 0

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done. Votes: 0

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate. Votes: 0

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'. Votes: 0

The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it. Votes: 0

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going. Votes: 0

People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with. Votes: 0

The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth. Votes: 0

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. Votes: 0

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. Votes: 0

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories. Votes: 0

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae. Votes: 0

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters. Votes: 0

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. Votes: 0

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. Votes: 0

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss. Votes: 0

Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them. Votes: 0

The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery Votes: 0

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. Votes: 0

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. Votes: 0

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing! Votes: 0

That's one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing's real, it just lives. Votes: 0

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley. Votes: 0

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. Votes: 0

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. Votes: 0

He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction Votes: 0

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Votes: 0

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time. Votes: 0

If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun. Votes: 0

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me. Votes: 0

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing. Votes: 0

Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person. Votes: 0

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Votes: 0

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever. Votes: 0

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it. Votes: 0

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet. Votes: 0

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force. Votes: 0

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke. Votes: 0

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Votes: 0

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength. Votes: 0

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. Votes: 0

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are. Votes: 0

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. Votes: 0

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal. Votes: 0

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world. Votes: 0

The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it. Votes: 0

Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more. Votes: 0

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. Votes: 0

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid. Votes: 0

When love's the culmination / of everything you feel / then it's the only thing that's precious / it's the only thing that's real Votes: 0

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Votes: 0

In New York, you can bump into someone on the street and go to a thing, go get coffee real quick. Votes: 0

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero. Votes: 0

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.' Votes: 0

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. Votes: 0

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing. Votes: 0

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Votes: 0

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself. Votes: 0

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer. Votes: 0

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing. Votes: 0

Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing. Votes: 0

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion. Votes: 0

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound. Votes: 0

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial. Votes: 0

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought. Votes: 0

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. Votes: 0

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. Votes: 0

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing. Votes: 0

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Votes: 0

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary. Votes: 0

The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life. Votes: 0

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television. Votes: 0

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand. Votes: 0

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem. Votes: 0

A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing. Votes: 0

I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion. Votes: 0

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it. Votes: 0

It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent Votes: 0

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing. Votes: 0

In real life you get out of the shower naked, so why wouldn't you do it on screen? It's just a normal thing. Votes: 0

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Votes: 0

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. Votes: 0

Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing. Votes: 0

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life. Votes: 0

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action. Votes: 0

On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible. Votes: 0

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man. Votes: 0

Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [...] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect. Votes: 0

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back. Votes: 0

I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing. Votes: 0

I'm not dead yet. It's all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero) Votes: 0

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. Votes: 0

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks. Votes: 0

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing. Votes: 0

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains. Votes: 0

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible. Votes: 0

I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to form my own opionions Votes: 0

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody. Votes: 0

Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect. Votes: 0

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity. Votes: 0

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing. Votes: 0

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness. Votes: 0

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was. Votes: 0

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing. Votes: 0

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing. Votes: 0

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit. Votes: 0

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune. Votes: 0

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is. Votes: 0

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak. Votes: 0

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for. Votes: 0

A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not. Votes: 0

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do. Votes: 0

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother. Votes: 0

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain. Votes: 0

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home. Votes: 0

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier Votes: 0

Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out! Votes: 0

Real movement in the Kerry campaign now. His poll numbers are moving, donations are moving, endorsements are moving. The only thing not moving is his hair. Votes: 0

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. Votes: 0

CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers. Votes: 0

Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy. Votes: 0

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem. Votes: 0

Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right. Votes: 0

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing. Votes: 0

The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or something. Votes: 0

The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from. Votes: 0

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. Votes: 0

An Important thing : never lie to yourself, for real... worst thing is when you lie to yourself, you just keep doing it and you don't know. Votes: 0

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow. Votes: 0

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing. Votes: 0

Every time you see an interior, where somebody has a cockpit, is the real existing thing. Every time you see the exterior zooming by, it's completely CGI. Votes: 0

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all. Votes: 0

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end. Votes: 0

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out. Votes: 0

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about. Votes: 0

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. Votes: 0

Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me. Votes: 0

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing. Votes: 0

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release. Votes: 0

I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes. Votes: 0

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing. Votes: 0

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. Votes: 0

The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett Votes: 0

That's the main thing. People have to feel it's real. If they feel there's something commercial or some fake thing behind it, then the feeling is definitely different. Votes: 0

The whole weak in the knees thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett Votes: 0

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. Votes: 0

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity. Votes: 0

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by. Votes: 0

The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett" Votes: 0

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality. Votes: 0

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. Votes: 0

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing. Votes: 0

Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they're so great"¦Everything has air quotes around it now. Votes: 0

The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self. Votes: 0

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success. Votes: 0

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you. Votes: 0

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out. Votes: 0

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real. Votes: 0

I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up. Votes: 0

There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing. Votes: 0

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized. Votes: 0

And life takes placeinside us, with the eternal lightof an ecstatic daywhich is going on somewhere else.It is a beautiful thing,something true and not yet real, beautiful!" Votes: 0

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble. Votes: 0

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad Votes: 0

I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. Votes: 0

Our love has been the thread through thelabyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Votes: 0

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater. Votes: 0

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive. Votes: 0

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing. Votes: 0

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. Votes: 0

Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history. Votes: 0

In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up. Votes: 0

What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomfortable.... Votes: 0

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. Votes: 0

Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce. Votes: 0

Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world. Votes: 0

The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where. Votes: 0

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever. Votes: 0

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives. Votes: 0

If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing. Votes: 0

Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that. Votes: 0

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities"”never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. Votes: 0

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special. Votes: 0

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition. Votes: 0

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture. Votes: 0

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn. Votes: 0

I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private. Votes: 0

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible. Votes: 0

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too. Votes: 0

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing. Votes: 0